The data generated by MapBiomas Per\u00fa warns about the accelerated dynamics of the changes that occurred between 1985 and 2021 in the natural coverage of the Peruvian territory, which have generated a loss of 3.9% of its natural vegetation. This has affected the country's ecosystems, its biodiversity, its ecosystem services, its functionality and connectivity. With a loss of 49.9% of extension in 37 years, the alarming retreat of glaciers stands out due to the effect of climate change and the black carbon caused by burning in the Amazon. The glaciers feed the springs of the country's large rivers, supplying water to millions of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otro ecosistema muy impactado por actividades antr\u00f3picas es el de los bosques estacionalmente secos del norte del pa\u00eds. \u201cEsta cobertura ha cambiado dr\u00e1sticamente y lo que m\u00e1s nos preocupa es que la estamos perdiendo de forma irreversible”, se\u00f1ala Renzo Piana, director ejecutivo del IBC. “Las p\u00e9rdidas han sido enormes, pr\u00e1cticamente irreversibles y sin perspectivas de que esta tendencia se revierta. Los datos encienden las alarmas y dan un sentido de urgencia a la necesidad de una acci\u00f3n decisiva y contundente para estas coberturas naturales del Per\u00fa\u201d, destaca Piana, al tiempo que enfatiza el impacto sobre la seguridad alimentaria de las poblaciones locales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MapBiomas Per\u00fa es una nueva iniciativa liderada por el Instituto del Bien Com\u00fan – IBC en coordinaci\u00f3n con la Red MapBiomas y la RAISG (Red Amaz\u00f3nica de Informaci\u00f3n Socioambiental Georreferenciada), con la colaboraci\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica del Ministerio del Ambiente (MINAM) y la Sala de Observaciones de la Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM). Los resultados de este estudio ser\u00e1n presentados en Lima este 3 de marzo a las 9:00 horas durante el evento titulado Per\u00fa: 37 a\u00f1os de cambios en un pa\u00eds megadiverso Colecci\u00f3n 1.0 de Mapas Anuales de Cobertura y Uso del Suelo de Per\u00fa (1985 \u2013 2021)<\/strong>, <\/strong>con participaci\u00f3n de expertos nacionales e internacionales. El evento tendr\u00e1 lugar en el Hotel Costa del Sol de esta ciudad y ser\u00e1 transmitido en vivo por el canal de YouTube de IBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Piana underlines the pioneering and novel nature of MapBiomas Peru: \"This initiative provides invaluable information to understand the dynamics of the use of natural resources in the country, since it contains very complete information and for a very broad period of analysis that covers the entire Peruvian territory. \u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Sandra R\u00edos, IBC researcher and coordinator of MapBiomas Peru, \u201cThis first collection fills a great information gap in regions outside the Amazon area of the country. New categories of analysis have been added to those that IBC had been handling for the mapping of natural covers in the Amazon basin. The initiative analyzes forest formations of all kinds, scrublands, mangroves, glaciers, agricultural areas, urban areas, and mining,\u201d explains R\u00edos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator of MapBiomas Network, highlights the strategic value of this mapping and analysis tool: \"MapBiomas Peru contributes to monitoring with a broad vision, helping to build and propose more precise conservation strategies according to the types of natural coverage and the anthropic activities that exist in each biome\u201d. Azevedo explains that this is the first, after Brazil, of a series of initiatives that will contribute to mapping the change in land use throughout South America: \"We aim to replicate this year the enormous work done in Peru in other countries Amazonian, with our local partners, in order to map South America and understand the dynamics of changes in all this period of time for the different biomes, countries, regions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n